Current Canadian Program '89 8.7% GDP
* Pays for hospital, doctor and dental care for all legal
residents. No deductibles or co-payments
* Mental health services
* Long-term nursing home care
* Paid prescription drugs for senior citizens
* Really 12 different plans administered by 12 provincial
governments with constitutional authority for health care.
Plans
over 40 years old.
* Admininstration costs 2.5% of total health costs (U.S. =
8.5%)
* Doctors paid by fee-for-service, fees negotiated annually
by provincial medical associations and provincial governments.
* 1 doctor per 450 persons. '86 average gross income was
US $110,100
* Some doctors disgruntled. $400,000 annual gross income max
imum in some plans; must cover overhead costs from this
gross.
* 95% of hospitals non-profit. Annual budget negotiated with
provincial authority. 80% bed utilization (U.S. 65%)
* Ontario province paid 1% of its health budget for U.S.
care, including charges for Canadian "snow-birds"
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Comment from Kitchener, Ontario " Fabulous, no waiting
in doctor's office, nobody wants to go back to old system. Costly
to Canada."
* Pays for hospital, doctor and dental care for all legal
residents. No deductibles or co-payments
* Mental health services
* Long-term nursing home care
* Paid prescription drugs for senior citizens
* Really 12 different plans administered by 12 provincial
governments with constitutional authority for health care.
Plans
over 40 years old.
* Admininstration costs 2.5% of total health costs (U.S. =
8.5%)
* Doctors paid by fee-for-service, fees negotiated annually
by provincial medical associations and provincial governments.
* 1 doctor per 450 persons. '86 average gross income was
US $110,100
* Some doctors disgruntled. $400,000 annual gross income max
imum in some plans; must cover overhead costs from this
gross.
* 95% of hospitals non-profit. Annual budget negotiated with
provincial authority. 80% bed utilization (U.S. 65%)
* Ontario province paid 1% of its health budget for U.S.
care, including charges for Canadian "snow-birds"
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Comment from Kitchener, Ontario " Fabulous, no waiting
in doctor's office, nobody wants to go back to old system. Costly
to Canada."
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